Last year, during my year without beer when I gave up all alcohol to raise money for charity, I posted about how high levels of drinking and obesity mean England is one of the few places in Europe seeing a rise in liver disease, a major preventable disease and asked...

Millions of adults fool themselves into thinking they are modest drinkers when they down enough to be classed as ‘bingers’, a study suggests. It found a huge mismatch between the amount of alcohol we say we are consuming and what is actually being bought. When the two...

As I sit and write this there is approximately 75 hours left before my year without beer is complete. I last had an alcoholic drink on New Years Eve of last year and so the big question lots of people keep asking is what happens when Big Ben chimes and we enter 2013?...

I am now on day 352 of my year without beer, so I think I can safely say yes to this question, but can you? Alcohol Concern is prompting people to start 2013 feeling better, saving money and making a difference by ditching the hangover, reducing the waistline, and...

Scientists could soon be able to predict whether teenage boys are likely to become heavy drinkers by looking at whether they carry a particular variant of a gene linked to thrill-seeking behaviour, a study suggests. The researchers said the findings will help them to...